ABC shocked that average Americans come to the defense of gays

by editor on March 30, 2009

You homophobic Americans just aren’t following the script that ABC News expects you to follow.

Once again, the network’s bigoted “What Would You Do?” program staged a phony scene designed to demonstrate that regular Americans as the worst sort of jerks. They set up their cameras in a sports bar and had two gay actors portray flaming homosexuals. Then they planted planted other actors to heckle them.

Uh-oh. Instead of proving that Americans hate gays, the bars patrons ejected the heckler and defended the gay couple’s right to be in “their” bar.

ABC had suggested anyone who objected to the gay displays of public affection were “intolerant of the gay lifestyle.”

Instead, their hidden cameras proved that the average American will come to the defense of anyone’s whose rights are begin taken away — straight or gay or who knows what.

I don’t understand the purpose of your post. I watched the video. ABC gave a very positive portrayal of tolerance in a New Jersey bar towards an openly affectionate gay couple. As a gay man, the video gave me hope. Your post, however, states that ABC is homophobic. In what way? If anything, I applause ABC for airing this video.

It’s interesting how the occasional expletive in day to day conversation is offensive to you and your group but the fact that millions of Americans are being deprived of their civil liberties is not. Why is that? Because when it comes to morality I really feel that something is missing here.

True evil of varying degrees can be successfully described within these guidelines; when a person’s right to choose for themselves is encroached upon. Simple as that.

Who stole my vowels? I see, you didn’t like the comment so you vandalized it. very nice. It remains a point that you shouldn’t ignore. The fact that people are likely to stand up for gay couple in distress is irrelevant to the fact that their civil liberties are being encroached upon. Totally irrelevant.

If ABC were actively trying to portray Americans as homophobic jerks, why would they broadcast the results of their experiment? The last sentence of the video was “this just goes to show you how lousy that stereotype can be.” ABC reported the results despite the the fact that those results didn’t match their initial expectations. Sounds like journalism to me.

You guys are making a bigger deal of this than it is. ABC didn’t have to show this if they didn’t want to—seems like they showed a balanced episode, and gave the facts—people acted considerately towards gays. Not a big deal.

I have not watched this show in some time, but I did see the very first one and tried to watch one other one once. They were on the same major theme when I had watched it before: trying to show Americans as intolerant. The show is a joke.